Rental platform Zumper raises $60M in Series D round

A Series D fundraising round was led by e.ventures, it’s first investment in the rental platform, which acquired PadMapper in 2016. More than 80 million use Zumper, according to the company. Continue reading

Elm Street Technology secures funding round to boost acquisition, growth efforts

Elm Street Technology secured a round of funding from Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York- and London-based private equity firm, for the purpose of acquiring more companies and supporting the subsequent growth. Continue reading

WATCH: Compass likely to avoid WeWork’s fate: Venture capitalists

Compass and WeWork both took massive amounts of cash from SoftBank, but experts say the two companies are actually quite different. Continue reading

Compass likely to avoid WeWork’s fate: Venture capitalists

Compass and WeWork both took massive amounts of cash from Softbank, but experts say the two companies are actually quite different. Continue reading

HomeLight launches Elite Agent program for top producers

Elite Agent status will be awarded to the top 1 percent of the real estate professionals on HomeLight’s platform. Continue reading

Moderne Ventures announces January 2020 Passport class

Seven new companies have been accepted into the venture investment fund’s Passport Program, which provides brands with strategic guidance to optimize their products. Continue reading

Side CEO talks venture capital, iBuyer growth and the need for innovation

Guy Gal founded his company in 2017 and plans to take it national in the coming years. He also believes the real estate industry is primed for more innovation. Continue reading

This was the year — and decade — big money pumped into real estate

Both 2019 and the decade leading to it were dominated by disruption. And the thing fueling that disruption was a whole lot of cash. Continue reading

NRT and incoming Coldwell Banker CEO Ryan Gorman talks pocket listings, venture capital and 2020

Ryan Gorman thinks agents will continue to play a vital role in the industry and that 2019 was a kind of tipping point for venture-backed real estate tech. Continue reading

Digital advertiser Audience Town gets powered by seed money, new staff

Audience Town’s programmatic advertising services receive boost from MathCapital and two new executives for the development of user-interfaces and APIs. Continue reading